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activities of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. A review of World Bank assistance to Indonesia in the …
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surveys the changing state of the forests in India. It explores causes of change in the extent and the quality of the forest …
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nonlending activities of the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility. The World Bank has clearly diminished its …
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Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in raising living standards and reducing poverty, particularly in previously lagging regions. Rapid solar home system (SHS) expansion in Bangladesh to some 3 million rural households by early 2014 has drawn the attention of donors and governments of other...
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capital and the environment can create jobs and make development more inclusive and sustainable, while highlighting how social …
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Rapid urbanization and economic growth, new demographic trends, and climate change are key challenges that developing …
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Climate Change (UNFCCC). PCF seeks to show how project-based greenhouse gas emission reduction transactions can lower the cost …
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China is the second largest energy consumer in the world and the largest producer and consumer of coal. Owing to its large coal resources, it is and will remain in the foreseeable future largely energy self-sufficient, although crude oil imports have steadily increased since 1993. In just 17...
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a renewed Bank commitment to the environment, culminating in a new 2001 Bank environmental strategy. For the evaluation … period there were four policies against which environmental performance can be judged: mainstreaming the environment …; enforcing environmental safeguards; implementing a global agenda; and environmental stewardship. The environment and social …
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In countries such as Georgia, the risks of climate change for the agricultural sector are a particularly immediate and … livelihoods. The most effective plans for adapting the sector to climate change will involve both human capital and physical … study to identify and prioritize options for climate change adaptation of the agricultural sector, with explicit …
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